Href Behavior

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George Durzi

In explorer if I browse to \\printservername\printername I connect to a
printer, and add it to my list of printers.
If I wanna do this within a webform, and I do:
<a href="\\printservername\printername">Printer Name</a>
When I hover over the link in IE, it points to
file://printservername/printername and doesn't give me the right behavior.

Any way I can get the same effect as typing that straight into an explorer
bar?
 
Clever try :-

But that won't do.

Use javascript window.print() instead

http://developer.irt.org/script/49.ht

Suresh

----- George Durzi wrote: ----

In explorer if I browse to \\printservername\printername I connect to
printer, and add it to my list of printers
If I wanna do this within a webform, and I do
<a href="\\printservername\printername">Printer Name</a
When I hover over the link in IE, it points t
file://printservername/printername and doesn't give me the right behavior

Any way I can get the same effect as typing that straight into an explore
bar
 
Suresh,
Thanks for the tip...
What I'm actually trying to do is allow users to install a printer by
clicking on this link. window.print() brings up a print dialogue to print
the current page
 
With the thin client(browser) there isn't much you can do on the client's computer. At most you are limited to what Javascript allows you to do on the client. And even that is browser centric

Have you considered using ActiveX controls

Suresh

----- George Durzi wrote: ----

Suresh
Thanks for the tip..
What I'm actually trying to do is allow users to install a printer b
clicking on this link. window.print() brings up a print dialogue to prin
the current pag
 
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